Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Job 8:17 in other translations
| BSB | His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones. |
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| WEB | His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. |
| ASV | His roots are wrapped about the stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. |
| YLT | By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. |
| DARBY | His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones. |
| BBE | His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. |
| Webster | His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. |
What does Job 8:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 8:8-19
Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very…
Job 8:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 8:17
- Job 18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
- Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Mark 11:20
And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
- Job 29:19
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
- Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
- Jeremiah 12:1-2
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
- Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Context
- Job 8:16
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
- Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
- Job 8:18
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Job 8:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Vanse entretejiendo sus raíces junto á una fuente, y enlazándose hasta un lugar pedregoso. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ses racines s’entrelacent dans un tas de rocaille, il voit la demeure des pierres; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | über Steinhaufen schlingen sich seine Wurzeln, er schaut die Wohnung der Steine; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, et inter lapides commorabitur. |